Why America Absolutely Doesn’t Need a Hate Speech Law
By: Bruce Hausknecht
Recently, Richard Stengel, a former editor of Time, wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post entitled “Why America needs a hate speech law.” In it, he argues the Framers’ vision for the protection of speech via the First Amendment is outdated. It was “engineered for a simpler era,” in Stengel’s opinion.
So what’s different about today? Stengel blames the Internet. Truth doesn’t always win out, as we once believed, because “in the age of social media, the marketplace model doesn’t work.” He cites a 2016 Stanford University study that supposedly shows that 82% of middle schoolers couldn’t distinguish between “fake news” and an actual news story.
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